A refresher for all our community members, new and old! The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project advances and invests in the health, education, and safety of young people living in Southern Africa to create a more equitable future for all.

Only a few hours left--get your final bids in to join this dinner party with @CharlizeAfrica: All net proceeds support our work advancing & investing in the health, education, & safety of youth in Southern Africa to create a more equitable future for ALL.

.@CharlizeAfrica: "I want YOU to join me for a dinner party in support of @CTAOP. We’ll laugh (a lot), maybe cry, raise our cups & eat some incredible food. All to help support youth in Southern Africa stay healthy & safe. Donate $10 or more to enter:

RT @ETAForg: Today is National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day—a reminder to support and protect women and girls impacted by HIV. Throug….

We are so excited to be collaborating w @charitybuzz again for their Charitybuzz Hosts: Good Evening dinner series w @CharlizeAfrica on 5/16 in LA!. Bidding is LIVE NOW at Don't miss out on a seat at this very special table!.

The YLF program is built on the same ethos as our Youth Leaders Scholarship (YLS) program and seeks to provide additional opportunities for young leaders who are passionate about community change. Click here to read more about YLF:

This past year, CTAOP deepened our work w/ Youth Leaders, investing in future good. Our Youth Leaders Fellowship provides a one-year placement for young changemakers to develop leadership skills, get on-the-job experience & mentorship & receive career guidance & wellness support.

CTAOP is stepping up our support to help ensure the orgs affected can still reach youth with life-saving services. This work is hope we can all invest in right now. Another source of hope we've invested in: CTAOP's recently launched Youth Leaders Fellowship (YLF) program 🚀.

We wanted to say thank you to our incredibly committed CTAOP community for continuing to support our efforts to ensure health and safety programs remain for African youth. Now more than ever, this work is critical.

We know these are unprecedented and uncertain times. The effects of the foreign aid freeze by the new U.S. administration are frightening. Many of the orgs CTAOP works with are trying to navigate how to help fill the critical service gaps for the youth and communities they serve.

📣 ACTION: The survey is still live until TOMORROW and needs partners to share what impact you have already seen or experienced in your communities so far. Fill out their survey by Monday 2/10 ➡️ @Aidsfonds .@gnpplus .@RobertCarrFund.

They've already released the initial results, which are alarming – particularly for the areas CTAOP Program Partners work in; 74% of responding orgs are based in Eastern & Southern Africa, & 69% are already reporting treatment service interruptions:.

The scale of the disastrous impact has yet to be seen, but our friends @Aidsfonds, @gnpplus, and @RobertCarrFund jumped into action, creating a survey to gather data and examples to map some of the immediate impact to share with donors to advocate for urgent action.

Millions of people – adults, and children – living with HIV globally, whose lives depend on the medicine and services that this funding provides, are facing dangerous treatment disruptions.

The new U.S. administration's unprecedented 'stop-work order' on foreign aid, and the instability and questions surrounding the legality of these actions, has left the entire global health community reeling. UNAIDS Data Portal:

To quote these wise words from our founder @CharlizeAfrica at the 2023 @GlblCtzn festival: "It's always been young people. [at CTAOP], we focus on young people, because we know that's where real change comes from.". Never forget it. #HopeIsAlive

2025 has been off to a rough start. During periods of oppression throughout history, so much of the energy reserve to fight back comes from the spark of hope, from the possibility of a better world. As always, for us, that spark is being lit by young people EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

#USAIDSavesLives. 📷 Beirne Roose-Snyder

We cannot allow ourselves to think this action is justifiable in any way. We will stand with our Program Partners and all incredible organizations impacted by this reckless executive order.

Suddenly stopping the provision of anti-retroviral drugs that must be taken daily may be a death sentence for many. See @amfAR's analysis of the impact of the stop work orders here:

In sub-Saharan Africa, this would mean nearly 136,000 babies acquiring HIV, over 6.4 million children and adolescents without health services, and over 220,000 people that would lose access to their life-saving treatment.